The Horrific Art of Basil Gogos

Basil Gogos' unique art style should be instantly recognizable to pretty much any horror fan. His work has graced the cover of  dozens of issues of Famous Monsters of Filmland and many other publications, his work was practically everywhere in the 60's and 70's. Boredom took over today and while digging around for some cool horror art I came across some 2258x3000 pixel scans of original Basil Gogos art and I knew I had to share. These things were huge, I think you could print great looking full sized posters with scans that big. I shrunk them down for this post, but they still look great. Well, the posters at least, some of the magazine cover scans aren't as high quality.

Up first, Linda Blair, fully demonized complete with facial lacerations, glowing yellow eyes and disgusting green tongue for Famous Monsters issue 111.

 Next, Mr. Vinny Price from The Pit and The Pendulum for FM issue 14.

Baron Sardonicus was very pleased with Basil's work on his portrait for the cover of issue 126.

And now, my personal favorite from Eerie #30, a mummy about to become unwound while attacking a beatnik in a bathrobe. I really love the red on this one, Basil was so good he even managed to make his backgrounds beautiful. Even if you dropped the characters from the art, it would still be gallery worthy.

CREEPY - But Wait - There's More!

Well, after posting what I thought was my last Creepy post, an awesome individual who goes by the name xinxilla dropped by the comments section and left a ton of links for most, if not all of the missing issues. Just when I think I'm done, they pull me back in! Huge thanks go out to xinxilla for supplying me with the missing issues.

The link below is just for a text file, once you open the text file you will find the links for the issues. Included in the text file are links for issues: 65, 76, 89, 91, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 138, 140, 141, 143, 144 and 146. Plus the Yearbook/Annuals from 1968-1972 and the limited Harris series from 1992 featuring covers by Dan Brereton. I think that about covers everything in the text file:

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I think some wires got crossed over at Warren because the cover for the 1972 Spooktacular looks a lot like it was supposed to go on an issue of Famous Monsters. (Now that would be a cool publication to find in CBR format.)

CREEPY - Spellbinding Horror and High Adventure

Here are the last remaining issues of Creepy I currently have. This set includes 126 (listed this in the last post, forgot to include the issue) 133, ,134, 135, 136, 137, 139, 142 and 145, which was the last issue put out by Warren in February 1983. Harris released a single issue, #146 in 1985, but I don't have that issue. If I do happen to come across any of the issues of Creepy or Eerie I didn't post before I will make sure to post them here.

The files are split over 5 parts, those of you without RS accounts should download part 5 first since it's only 473kb.

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CREEPY - Spine Tingling Tales of the Macabre!

Here is a new set of Creepy. This includes #127, 128, 129, 130, 131, and 132. Be sure to be on the look out by a special guest appearance by Angus Scrimm!

Sadly I actually only have about 1, maybe 2 more sets of Creepy left in my collection, so that kinda sucks. But I've got plenty of other comics, some incomplete EC sets and stuff like that so I'll find some more good stuff to put up once I'm out of Creepy.

I actually tried posting this last night until a very minor mistake on my part made a huge mess of my computer. Anyone who has ever split a large file using WinRar knows you have to put an "M" after the desired file size. For example, if you need it to be split into 100 MB parts, you put 100M. I got distracted and missed the M, so instead of getting 2 files, I ended up with 65,000 very tiny files on my computer. That's right, 65,000. Sure it was only a combined total of about 26MB before I caught the mistake, but having that many files on my computer at once almost killed it. Anyway, I'm back up and running now, so here you go.

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CREEPY - Now With 25% More Star Wars Propaganda!

I've got a new batch of CREEPY for your downloading pleasure today. This includes issue #119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, and 125. Be sure to check out Knight Errant in issue 125, some spectacular artwork on display there by Mike Saenz. For example:

I was pretty sure I had posted one or two of these issues before but I can not find any evidence to suggest that I had, so apologies if I've repeated myself on any of these here.

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I think that I need to try and find one of these New Warrior's Battle Jackets shown in the ad below. Looks like just the thing one would need to stay extremely upbeat and positive amidst even the most terrifying intergalactic warfare. My search has been futile thus far, the only thing I found when searching "New Battle Jackets" (after New Warrior's Battle Jackets came up empty) was this monstrosity here. I'll keep looking around though, hopefully one will turn up.

Oh yeah, and before I forget, Happy Fourth of July. May all your limbs remain intact:)

CREEPY - Special Ed Dracula Lives!

Here are 8 more issues of CREEPY. This set includes 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117 and 118. I don't know what's up with the vampire on the cover for 112, kinda looks like Lon Chaney's Phantom of the Opera with down syndrome. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

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Here's an ad from that same issue is an ad I always enjoy seeing. And since I've pretty much put the kibosh on my Space Bastard site I thought I'd post it here.

Genuine soil from Dracula's Castle? In a tiny glass coffin, artistically secured on a gold chain? Sold!

Anyone out there ever actually own one of these Dracula dirt necklaces? I used to really want one of these when I was a kid, (along with everything else in the back issues I used to read). Of course I didn't realize at the time that Creepy had stopped being printed in 1983, when I was all of 2 years old. Plus most of the issues I actually owned were from the 70's, so I don't know how successful I would've been in sending away for the dirt necklace. Or the Creepy Undies.

CREEPY - Phallic Spaceship Spectacular!

Here are 6 more issues of CREEPY - issue #105, 106, 107, 108, 109, and 110. The spaceships on the cover of 109 kind of resemble what I'd imagine a clown's penis would look like. Upon further inspection of the issue the spaceships in the actual Alien Affair story don't look like clown wangs nearly as much as Jim Laurier's cover would lead you to believe. I think someone's mind was in the gutter. That or he was disgruntled and tried to get fired - like that guy who supposedly did something similar on the Little Mermaid poster.

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CREEPY - Demon Beasts Unleashed!

Okay, just wanted to apologize for the lack of updates the past week or so. I was able to secure a job pretty quickly here in my new stomping grounds, but unfortunately it's a job that KICKS MY ASS. So I've either been too busy, tired or kinda injured in some way or another to actually take the time to make any posts - even though I've had last Wednesday's Warren issues uploaded for several days now. So now that I finally have a bit of time here are 6 more issues of Creepy. This set includes #99, 100, 101, 102, 103, and 104.

I just put them all up in one MEGA link, hope that works for everyone:

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And, while I'm here I thought I'd point out DeepDiscount's current Anchor Bay Father's Day Buy 1 Get 1 Sale to anyone out there looking to get some cheap AB stuff. I went with the 2 seasons of Sledge Hammer! for $18, because I think it's what Hammer would want. And no, my asskicker of a job is not working for the aforementioned online DVD retailer, just trying to save any fellow cheap bastards some money.

Creepy Vs. Vampirella in a duel to the death!

Okay that title doesn't really make any sense, but I was kinda stumped coming up with something clever so it will have to do. Thanks to a couple of my loyal visitors I've gotten scans of some of the missing Creepy and Vampirella issues I didn't have before. Thanks guys! Starting with Creepy we have issue 32, 89 and 91. And moving on to Vampi we've got issue 11, 12 and 43. One of the Vampirellas is a PDF file but you should still be able to read it with no problems.

Creepy must've really enjoy the artwork from the cover of Vampirella 11 because they used the same artwork for the cover of issue 91. I wonder if Frank was paid twice...

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CREEPY - The Mummy Returns to the Superbowl Gridiron!

Okay, finally getting these up on Wednesday again, albeit a bit later than usual. I'm sick for the second time in a month, so I spent most of my day laying on the floor, or the couch, or wherever I was able to get comfortable. Anway, feeling a bit better now, so here they are. This set of CREEPY includes #86, 87, 88, 90, 92, and 93. Sorry, I don't have 89 or 91.

Sharebee wasn't being very cooperative today, after I got the first part up on there it wouldn't let me upload anything else. So the first part is on Sharebee, and the others are on Rapidshare. Those of you without Rapidshare accounts, download part 4 first, it's only 6 MB, so the download wait should be less if you grab that one first.

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